The Arbor Collective is proud to announce that its 2009/10 women’s snowboard collection has received two major awards. The Transworld Snowboarding Magazine Good Wood Award for the Arbor Cadence Board and Backcountry Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award for Arbor Push Board.

The Arbor Cadence is a collaboration board made with Sylvia Ji. Arbor thought that her paintings, the symbolic reflections of herself, portraits of people she knows or nameless faces set in a landscape of fleeting and decaying beauty were the perfect match for the temperament of the new Cadence design. The board is especially designed for women who take a park-inspired set of skills to the whole mountain, a no compromise directional-twin that supports spin tricks, rail sessions, and slope style cruising. A structural bird’s eye maple top creates a fun disposition, light-touch initiation, and lively return.

Here is what Transworld Snowboarding testers has to say about the Arbor Cadence snowboard:
“Good pop, great flex for smooth butters. Dankies! P.S. I think I ollied super high⎯highest of the day!”
“Surprisingly fun and flexy board. Nice flex longitudinally and laterally.”
“I really like this snowboard. I felt like I could press pretty well, and it was also poppy enough.”

The Arbor Push, also a collabo between Arbor and a self-trained illustrator Yoskay Yomamoto that mixes in his works two different cultural backgrounds including nostalgically blending pop-iconic characters from his new western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements from his Asian heritage. This board was designed for women who surf mountains with freeride style. A structural bamboo topsheet, directional shape, and enhanced flex provide energetic initiation, reliable control, and the ability to express a clean line in every condition.

According to the Backcountry editorial staff, the Arbor Push performed extremely well and scored really high in overall performance “As the backcountry snowboarding publication in North America, we don’t make endorsements frivolously, and the Arbor Push stood out in an incredibly strong field,”